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What Entrepreneurs Need to Do to Access Seed Capital
Program Description:
The online Seed Funding and Venture Capital Course Certificate Program is an insider view to the early stage and seed funding process offered by the National Association of Seed and Venture Funds (NASVF) and National Council of Entrepreneurial Tech Transfer (NCET2). You’ll learn from NASVF members how angels and VC's identify investable startups, what needs to be in the business plan, how to build effective leadership teams, how to do a deal and what terms to avoid, and what to do after you get funded.
This course is for researchers, entrepreneurs, service providers, tech transfer people who are involved in raising funding for startup businesses.
Instructors:
Richard Gajan, MS, MBA
Director of Enterprise Services, i2E Inc
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Charles Sidman, MBA, Ph.D.
Managing Partner, ECS Capital Partners, LLC
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Class Schedule:
Tuesday, May 31, 2011, 1PM to 2:30PM ET
Tuesday, June 7, 2011, 1PM to 2:30PM ET
Tuesday, June 14, 2011, 1PM to 2:30PM ET
Tuesday, June 21, 2011, 1PM to 2:30PM ET
Tuesday, June 28, 2011, 1PM to 2:30PM ET
Costs:
This certificate program course is offered at the cost of $297 for all 5 online classes. For students and post-docs, the cost is $75 (with verification).
Certificate:
Registered students who achieve 60% or greater on the final online multiple-choice test at the end of the program will be granted a Certificate of Successful Completion for this course.
Classes and Topics:
Class 1: What do entrepreneurs need to understand about the entrepreneurial landscape
Presenters: Richard Gajan and Charles Sidman
Text Chapters: 8, 18, 19
• Sources of capital
• Sources of advice and mentoring
• What do investors look for and what does it mean to the entrepreneur
• Differences between Angels and VC’s, and their deals
• How to find investors, how to get the meeting, how to evaluate ‘fit’
• Bootstrapping the business
Class 2: What does an entrepreneur need to do to write a business plan
Lead Presenter: Richard Gajan
Text Chapters: 7, (10), 11, 14, 16, 17
• The major business plan components and how they work together
• The elevator pitch and the presentation
• Leveraging capital - doing more with less
• Intellectual property and legal structure
• Getting to revenue as quickly as possible
• Financial projections
Class 3: How does an entrepreneur execute the plan
Lead Presenter: Richard Gajan
Text Chapters: 9, 12
• The management team
• Board of directors
• Outsourcing versus in-house development or production
Class 4: How does an entrepreneur negotiate the deal
Lead Presenter: Charles Sidman
Text Chapter: 19
• Participants (principals and service providers) and their roles
• Valuation
• Term sheet and deal structure
• Due diligence
Class 5: What does an entrepreneur need to do after the funding
Lead Presenter: Charles Sidman
Text Chapter: 20
• Monitoring and adjusting the plan
• Growth pains
• Exits
Primary Reference
1. Technology Ventures: From Idea to Enterprise - 3rd Edition by Thomas Byers, Richard Dorf, and Andrew Nelson
http://www.pickabook.co.uk/bookdetails.aspx?ISBN=9780071289214, http://cgi.ebay.com/Technology-Ventures-3rd-edition-Byers-Dorf-Nelson-/110609538556
Supplemental Reading:
2. Term Sheets & Valuations - A Line by Line Look at the Intricacies of Venture Capital by Alex Wilmerding
http://www.amazon.com/Term-Sheets-Valuations-Intricacies-Venture/dp/1587620685
3. The Ernst & Young Business Plan Guide. By E Siegel, B Ford, and J Bornstein. ISBN-10: 0470112694. Publisher Wiley
http://www.amazon.com/Ernst-Young-Business-Plan-Guide/dp/0470112697
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